[OmniOS-discuss] r151014 users - beware of illumos 6214 and L2ARC

[Dan McDonald]

I'm not sure about latent corruption.  I do know that the worst-case corruption won't be caught by zpool scrub because the corrupt data checksums nicely.

Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

On Sep 10, 2015, at 10:26 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

>> From: Dan McDonald
>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 4:53 AM
>> 
>> This bug can lead to problems ranging from false-positives on zpool scrub
> all the
>> way up to actual pool corruption.
> 
> Ouch 8-/, thanks for the heads up. I removed my cache devices for now; are
> these problems something that is immediately visible, or could I possibly
> still have some latent corruption hiding somewhere that might not be noticed
> for months :(?
> 
> My last scrub ran last Friday and said it repaired 0 with 0 errors and there
> were no known data errors. Now that the cache devices have been removed,
> would another successful scrub prove there has been no damage?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>